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Guidance On Challenging Plants And Medicines Now Available!

We recognise the Challenging Plants and Challenging Medicines resources contain a huge amount of information in the form of presentations, handouts, worksheets and experiment sheets for teachers and students. With 100 resources in Challenging Plants and over 50 in Challenging Medicines it is difficult to see how the resources link to each other and how seemingly biology-based resources are linked to topics taught by teachers every day.

We have now provided pedagogical overviews for Plants and Medicines, as well as spider diagrams showing how the resources link to each other.

The Challenging Plants Experiment resources can be seen as sets (shown below) of ‘preparation of salts’, ‘preparing and investigating inorganic complexes’, ‘analysing solutions using colorimetric measurements’, ‘rates of reaction’, ‘chemistry investigations’ and ‘plant chemistry/biology experiment’ – all areas a teacher needs to cover. These experiments can give a teacher the option to use a different experiment to demonstrate, for example, making salts, and do so with supporting material that gives the experiment a real-life context.

The handouts and presentations are also linked through subject areas (shown below). These materials can be used in conjunction withtheexperimentstoformtopicsandpossibleprojectwork.

We hope these will be a helpful guide to the mass of information available through Challenging Plants and Challenging Medicines!

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It will be very serviceable to find out about composition of different plants and use this information to make new medicines. This may help us cure life-threatening diseases. Pharmaceutical companies should be very interested in these projects because they will benefit financially if a new medicine is invented. So, they should fund these projects.